Government Arrests Megaupload Executives

Quote from SigX : i am not familiar with this case but seems to me that everytime we discuss this people are just pissed off they can't steal movies/music/tv/porn/books etc. etc. off the internet. Its really hard to take sides with some of you people when that is your concern.

Megaupload was one of the fastest sites for me. I used to download Android ROMs from XDA from there all the time. Additionally, I used to upload my pictures and videos from my camera there to send to friends. Same with large sized .zip files.

There is a ton of legit stuff on all filesharing sites and networks. Just like there could be a ton of non-legit stuff on cloud services like iCloud. Where is the line drawn? Could Photobucket be taken down because someone uploads copyrighted images? It's just a power grab at this point.

And then, how do they even come up with the $500 million figure? All these lawsuits are a joke. They have no basis for these losses. In reality, their loss could have been $10,000. It could have been $1 million. With regards to pirating, one pirated 'item' does not equal a lost sale from that 'item'. There is no guarantee that without the item being available on sharing networks, a person would opt to buy it instead. I gave up buying CDs almost a decade ago. Why? Not because of Napster. Because back then when a single CD rose to $25, I thought it was absolutely absurd.